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In many ways this game can be considered Pole Position 3, as it improved upon its original formula and bears much similarity to its predecessor.

In Final Lap, up to eight players would simultaneously race on the Suzuka Circuit in a Formula One race. There was also a single player mode, in which your score was based on how far you traveled until time ran out or if you completed four laps, which was close to impossible. Suzuka International Racing Course (Suzuka Circuit for short) is the host of the Formula One Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix and one of the oldest and most-famous motorsport race tracks in Japan. ... Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Never before had eight players been able to race each other simultaneously in any racing game. It also had pseudo-3-D graphics which were revolutionary for its time. The player either piloted the Williams/Lotus or McLaren/March F1 cars on the Suzuka track, rendered perfectly, even down to sponsor billboards. The only music is the theme when you start a race, which plays for three seconds and sounds like the Pole Position start music, only more late '80s synth style. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

It ran on Namco's System 2 hardware, which was composed of:

• Motorola 68000 x2/12.288000 MHz
• Motorola 6809 3.072000 MHz
• Hitachi HD63705 2.04800 MHz
• Namco C-140 Custom PCM chip
• Yamaha YM-2151 sound processor

In 1990, Philip Morris, the tobacco conglomerate, filed a lawsuit claiming copyright infringement against Namco, Atari Games (the Final Lap distributor in the U.S.) and Sega on behalf of their Super Monaco GP game because both of these games featured a Marlboro billboard, which was found on the real-life Suzuka and Monaco tracks. The Motorola 68000 is a 32-bit CISC microprocessor from Motorola. ... 1 MHz Motorola 6809E processor, manufactured in 1983. ... It has been suggested that Hitachi Works be merged into this article or section. ... Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a digital representation of an analog signal where the magnitude of the signal is sampled regularly at uniform intervals, then quantized to a series of symbols in a digital (usually binary) code. ... Yamaha redirects here. ... A sound chip is an integrated circuit (i. ... 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Altria Group, Inc. ... Species Nicotiana acuminata Nicotiana alata Nicotiana attenuata Nicotiana benthamiana Nicotiana clevelandii Nicotiana excelsior Nicotiana forgetiana Nicotiana glauca Nicotiana glutinosa Nicotiana langsdorffii Nicotiana longiflora Nicotiana obtusifolia Nicotiana paniculata Nicotiana plumbagifolia Nicotiana quadrivalvis Nicotiana repanda Nicotiana rustica Nicotianasuaveolens Nicotiana sylvestris Nicotiana tabacum Nicotiana tomentosa Ref: ITIS 30562 as of August 26, 2005... A conglomerate is a large company that consists of divisions of often seemingly unrelated businesses. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Atari Games was an American producer of arcade games, and originally part of Atari Inc. ... Sega Corporation ) is an international video game software and hardware developing company, and a former home computer and console manufacturer. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Marlboro logo Marlboro is a brand of cigarette made by Altria. ...

Philip Morris was under investigation at the time for their role in preteen smoking, and the appearance of one of their brands in games aimed towards children and teens did not help their image. Namco was forced to pay a settlement and Sega had to edit their game to remove all Marlboro signs. The cigarette is the most common method of smoking tobacco. ... GAMES Magazine is a United States based magazine devoted to games published by GAMES Publications, a division of Kappa Publishing Group. ...

External link

• Final Lap at the Killer List of Videogames